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- From: sheppard@escher.cs.jhu.edu (John Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.185131.10983@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: The Johns Hopkins University CS Department
- References: <1993Jan6.123723.16769@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:51:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.123723.16769@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov writes:
- >But, why is it that no one
- >has found a way to set up a non-traditional approach to a PhD for
- >fully employeed people. I mean, I cannot simply quit my job and
- >wander off to some university for 4 or 5 years and work on a degree
- >(and before I get flamed - I realize that a lot of people have
- >done exactly that and they have sacrificed a great deal in order
- >to get their degree. Why can't we have both???).
- >
- >Anyway, I will quite rambling. Any body have any thoughts or other
- >ideas?
- >
- >Pat McClanahan
- >mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
-
-
- I was originally going to limit my comments to a direct response to
- Wallace, but I think I will post in response to this one. I received
- my Master's through a part time evening program at Johns Hopkins with
- a lot of financial and administrative support for my company. JHU's
- program also offers courses at 4:30 and 7:10. But that's not really
- what I want to say.
-
- I am currently a fully employed person working for the same company
- that supported my Master's AND I am working on my Ph.D. at Hopkins.
- I have been full time at Hopkins in the day program for the past
- two years and am progressing well. The point is that I have managed
- to arrange a deal with my employer who values advanced degrees to
- providing funding and time to do this with no loss of wages. It is
- possible to work these deals. You only need to explore your alternatives
- and be a little creative.
-
- John Sheppard
-